Coach Robinson’s dos and don’ts on adapting to the Wild, Wild West and embracing a program’s legend

PHOTO: Steve Robinson (left with Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd. *** Buy me a coffee to support my research to tell untold college football integration untold stories. Thomas Shanahan | @Thomas-Shanahan-23 Watch our documentary development trailer: Game Changers *** By TOM SHANAHAN Steve Robinson, a long-time assistant basketball coach under Roy Williams at Kansas and North Carolina and coach of his own NCAA Tournament teams at Tulsa and Florida State, discussed the game’s awkward transition to the Wild, Wild…

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Climate change, thankfully, is real in college basketball’s men’s and women’s games

PHOTO: Johnny Juzang drives against Michigan State. By TOM SHANAHAN College basketball is refreshing again. The Final Four -- on both the men’s and women’s sides – has knocked us off our feet two straight nights, the women on Friday in San Antonio and the men Saturday in Indianapolis. The climate change has displaced the predictable air clouding the sport through the previous decade. Kentucky has been blown into the background, watching the NCAA tournament with a 9-16…

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